Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,116 3,322 4,300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.47% 6.77% 6.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 24.50% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,639 2,053 2,644
10th Percentile £213 £303 £271
25th Percentile £377 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +5.57% +4.20%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £631
90th Percentile £770 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 208 256
10th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.12 £21.24 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.93 £78.66 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,426 13,559 15,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.05% 27.64% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,048 9,085 9,966
10th Percentile £313 £335 £320
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 719 672
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.11 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £55.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in England.

Daily rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in England.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 1,417 £525 -8.70% 2,415
South East +12 497 £500 - 1,228
North of England +20 413 £475 - 1,165
South West +5 261 £530 -3.64% 671
Midlands +11 249 £411 -13.58% 922
North West +10 237 £500 +11.11% 667
East of England +7 182 £500 - 713
West Midlands +8 157 £488 +2.63% 576
Yorkshire +28 126 £450 -14.29% 366
East Midlands +8 91 £255 -45.60% 345
North East +34 49 £450 +62.16% 152
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 107 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 106 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 81 (2.60%) Confluence
4 16 (0.51%) Apache
5 15 (0.48%) CMS
6 13 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.42%) SAS
7 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.26%) IIS
9 7 (0.22%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.096%) Gunicorn
12 3 (0.096%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 3 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 374 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 255 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 236 (7.57%) Chatbot
4 149 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 92 (2.95%) MS Visio
6 68 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.19%) Simulink
8 28 (0.90%) Photoshop
9 26 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.35%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.29%) Sketch
13 8 (0.26%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
14 7 (0.22%) Revit
15 6 (0.19%) InDesign
15 6 (0.19%) Maya
16 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
16 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 47 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
6 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
8 9 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 8 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.22%) Endur
10 7 (0.22%) Primavera
11 6 (0.19%) ENOVIA
11 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 490 (15.73%) Azure
2 251 (8.06%) AWS
3 191 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 117 (3.75%) GCP
6 101 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (2.18%) SaaS
8 65 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 46 (1.48%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.44%) GitHub
11 45 (1.44%) PaaS
12 41 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (1.28%) Power Automate
13 40 (1.28%) Serverless
14 36 (1.16%) IaaS
15 33 (1.06%) OCI
16 29 (0.93%) Snowflake
17 26 (0.83%) WhatsApp
18 25 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.04%) Firewall
2 98 (3.15%) DNS
3 90 (2.89%) LAN
4 85 (2.73%) WAN
5 81 (2.60%) DHCP
6 54 (1.73%) VPN
7 51 (1.64%) SSL
8 48 (1.54%) SAN
8 48 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 43 (1.38%) Ethernet
10 37 (1.19%) VoIP
11 36 (1.16%) Network Security
12 34 (1.09%) Internet
12 34 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.90%) Wireless
14 21 (0.67%) VLAN
15 20 (0.64%) MPLS
16 18 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (0.55%) BGP
18 16 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 105 (3.37%) Power BI
3 60 (1.93%) Tableau
4 53 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.51%) Data Lake
8 46 (1.48%) Big Data
9 36 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.06%) MySQL
11 28 (0.90%) Metadata
12 22 (0.71%) Data Mining
12 22 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 21 (0.67%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.55%) GIS
14 17 (0.55%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.55%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (0.45%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 171 (5.49%) JIRA
2 124 (3.98%) Git
3 57 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (1.03%) GitLab
6 27 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 21 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.45%) Gradle
9 14 (0.45%) Subversion
10 13 (0.42%) webpack
11 11 (0.35%) Selenium
12 9 (0.29%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) JUnit
13 8 (0.26%) Postman
13 8 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 1,354 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 664 (21.31%) Finance
3 601 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 182 (5.84%) Telecoms
6 170 (5.46%) Banking
7 163 (5.23%) Marketing
8 137 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
9 122 (3.92%) Legal
10 108 (3.47%) Manufacturing
11 96 (3.08%) Retail
12 95 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 92 (2.95%) Front Office
14 86 (2.76%) Electronics
15 72 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 61 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (1.60%) Aerospace
18 43 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
19 40 (1.28%) Investment Banking
19 40 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 483 (15.50%) Developer
2 398 (12.77%) Analyst
3 314 (10.08%) Architect
4 251 (8.06%) Senior
5 236 (7.57%) Software Developer
6 179 (5.74%) Business Analyst
7 170 (5.46%) Lead
8 162 (5.20%) Project Manager
9 142 (4.56%) Consultant
10 103 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
11 96 (3.08%) Software Engineer
12 74 (2.37%) Support Engineer
13 72 (2.31%) Designer
14 55 (1.77%) Network Engineer
15 52 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (1.57%) Systems Engineer
17 47 (1.51%) Java Developer
18 43 (1.38%) Data Engineer
18 43 (1.38%) Senior Analyst
19 42 (1.35%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (6.03%) HTML
2 91 (2.92%) .NET
3 79 (2.54%) CSS
4 77 (2.47%) REST
5 74 (2.37%) React
5 74 (2.37%) Web Services
6 50 (1.60%) XML
7 45 (1.44%) AngularJS
8 37 (1.19%) Kafka
9 35 (1.12%) RESTful
10 34 (1.09%) JSON
11 32 (1.03%) Spring
12 26 (0.83%) .NET Framework
13 24 (0.77%) NumPy
14 23 (0.74%) Pandas
15 22 (0.71%) ASP.NET
16 21 (0.67%) Middleware
16 21 (0.67%) Node.js
17 20 (0.64%) ARM Templates
18 16 (0.51%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 179 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 102 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 91 (2.92%) PKI
6 68 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.02%) Derivative
8 62 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 53 (1.70%) FPGA
10 52 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.67%) VHDL
11 51 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 42 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 37 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
15 33 (1.06%) Clustering
15 33 (1.06%) CPLD
16 32 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 31 (0.99%) Life Science
17 31 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 343 (11.01%) Windows
2 179 (5.74%) Linux
3 107 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.11%) Unix
5 93 (2.98%) Windows 10
6 47 (1.51%) Android
6 47 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 39 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 39 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (1.12%) Windows 7
9 20 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.45%) Windows XP
12 12 (0.39%) Solaris
13 10 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.29%) VMS
15 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.22%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (31.64%) Computer Science
2 789 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
3 638 (20.47%) Agile
4 447 (14.35%) Project Management
5 362 (11.62%) Software Engineering
6 321 (10.30%) Artificial Intelligence
7 281 (9.02%) ITIL
8 276 (8.86%) DevOps
9 274 (8.79%) Code Quality
10 262 (8.41%) Analytics
11 236 (7.57%) Conversational UI
12 230 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 225 (7.22%) Decision-Making
14 221 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 199 (6.39%) Migration
16 188 (6.03%) Roadmaps
17 186 (5.97%) Customer Service
18 177 (5.68%) Project Delivery
19 167 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
20 164 (5.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 484 (15.53%) SQL
2 449 (14.41%) Python
3 274 (8.79%) C#
4 272 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 200 (6.42%) Java
6 153 (4.91%) PowerShell
7 107 (3.43%) C++
8 65 (2.09%) C
9 52 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 47 (1.51%) Bash
11 41 (1.32%) MATLAB
12 33 (1.06%) R
13 25 (0.80%) VBA
14 23 (0.74%) Go
14 23 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 22 (0.71%) Perl
15 22 (0.71%) Scala
16 21 (0.67%) Rust
16 21 (0.67%) VB
16 21 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 649 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 469 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 362 (11.62%) Master's Degree
4 313 (10.04%) SC Cleared
5 183 (5.87%) DV Cleared
6 123 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (2.89%) PMI Certification
8 81 (2.60%) CCNA
9 79 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 79 (2.54%) PhD
10 78 (2.50%) PMP
11 75 (2.41%) CISSP
12 58 (1.86%) CCNP
13 50 (1.60%) Azure Certification
14 46 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 46 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
15 42 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
16 37 (1.19%) CISM
17 34 (1.09%) HND
18 29 (0.93%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.39%) QA
2 86 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 67 (2.15%) SLA
4 60 (1.93%) GDPR
4 60 (1.93%) PMO
5 42 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.25%) NIST
6 39 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.51%) GRC
8 14 (0.45%) GxP
9 13 (0.42%) MiFID
10 12 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
10 12 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
12 10 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.29%) COBIT
13 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 259 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 108 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (2.25%) Docker
4 48 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (1.28%) Firmware
6 37 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.83%) vSphere
9 25 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (0.67%) VMware NSX
11 17 (0.55%) KVM
12 15 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
13 13 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.13%) vCloud
15 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.064%) NFS
16 2 (0.064%) XenApp
17 1 (0.032%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 121 (3.88%) SCCM
2 96 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 72 (2.31%) Terraform
4 56 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.38%) SCOM
6 39 (1.25%) WSUS
7 34 (1.09%) Ansible
8 27 (0.87%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.83%) NetBackup
10 21 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.32%) Grafana
13 10 (0.32%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.26%) Kibana
15 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.22%) logstash
17 6 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 643 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 218 (7.00%) PayPal
3 171 (5.49%) SAP
4 165 (5.30%) Oracle
5 126 (4.04%) VMware
6 120 (3.85%) Cisco
7 100 (3.21%) Google
8 89 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.77%) EMC
10 54 (1.73%) Adobe
11 53 (1.70%) Salesforce
12 46 (1.48%) HP
13 38 (1.22%) Juniper
14 36 (1.16%) Citrix
15 35 (1.12%) IBM
16 29 (0.93%) Databricks
16 29 (0.93%) Palo Alto
17 24 (0.77%) Atlassian
18 23 (0.74%) Alteryx
19 21 (0.67%) Red Hat